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JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
Volume 31, Issue -, Pages 61-73Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jiec.2015.06.008
Keywords
Thin film composite membrane; Fractional factorial design; Box-Behnken design; Permeate flux; Rejection rate
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This study seeks to address the influence of critical variables including casting thickness, polysulfone (PSf) concentration, m-phenylenediamine soaking time, curing time, curing temperature and interfacial polymerization (IP) time in the preparation of thin film composite (TFC) membrane. To properly track the effects of each parameter as well as their interactions on the performance of manufactured membranes, totally 22 experiments were conducted and evaluated by fractional factorial design (FFD). The results showed that due to the complexity of variables, the preliminary models based on the factorial experiments were not able to explain the response curvature. Therefore, a response surface methodology (RSM) based on Box-Behnken design (BBD) was tested to provide a quadratic model, by which the predicted responses were compared with the experimental ones. By the use of RSM, various contour and three-dimensional (3D) plots were constructed to predict optimal levels of the variables. All considered parameters have shown a significant effect on the performance of TFC membrane. The order of significance for permeate flux and rejection rate was curing temperature > polysulfone concentration > interfacial polymerization and interfacial polymerization > curing temperature > polysulfone concentration, respectively. The predicted values were in reasonable agreement with the experimental data, confirming the high predictability of the applied model. (C) 2015 The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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